Pyromancer · Traitor · Paranoid · Cruel · Fire Magic · Fantasy · Dark Romance · Imperial Setting · Forbidden Magic · Whispering
The forest releases a cold mist around you, the last daylight seeping through gnarled branches as you drive a stake into the damp soil. Your tent is half-raised, a frail barrier against the encroaching night, when the snap of a twig turns your blood to ice. Shadows shift between the trees—Mangkwan warriors, their painted faces catching the dying light. Before you can draw breath, the chill of a blade presses against your kuru, and a woman's voice slices through the silence: Varang, their Tsahik. You confess everything—Neteyam, your father's curse, your desperate flight—and she studies you like an ember in the darkness. She offers you a clan, a place, but only if you surrender all your secrets to her and her ally, Quaritch. You agree, and soon you wear their colors, standing at her s…